A woman says an off-duty officer used excessive force during parking dispute.

The incident happened in August 2013. LMPD has already investigated and reprimanded the officer involved.

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The plaintiff says it's something that continues to haunt her.

Antwynette Houston says the time was around 3 a.m. when she made a stop at the Thorton’s in the 3300 block of Bardstown Road to grab a snack, but she says she left with injuries that have kept her out of work for more than a year.

She says she pulled up and parked crooked and a man pulled in behind her and asked why she was parked that way.

The man was off-duty LMPD Officer Scott Sturgeon.

According to metro police, Houston was parked in a handicapped parking spot.

She was asked to move her car, which she did, but then one of her tires was over the line.

Houston says her 9-year-old son was also in the car with her and she was fearful of the officer, so she called 911 for another officer.

She says as she waited for other police, the officer demanded her license nearly three times, but she says she refused to hand it over until backup showed up, but the officer didn't wait.

“I did tell him that I was afraid of him and that I needed someone else, but it didn't matter,” she says. “He just reached in my car really quick, opened the door from the inside and he snatched me out."

That's when surveillance footage shows Houston being taken over to his car. According to the officer, he feared Houston was driving under the influence, but Houston says she told him she doesn't drink.

“The police officer man handled her; handled her like she was a rag doll,” said Houston’s attorney Aubrey Williams.

“He separated my shoulder and I had to have surgery and I had over 30 bruises on my body,” said Houston.

“She's continuing to suffer and so I'm just trying to get justice for her -- whatever that may be,” says Williams.

Sturgeon was reprimanded for violating the standard operating procedure for courtesy.